This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Evans Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/DZB.2ACI/2454 Message Board Post: The 1982 history of Licking County says of Caleb Evans s/o John Evans b 1765, " Caleb Evans married an Anderson for his second wife and moved to Moultrie Co., Illinois. He had two daughters and a son Caleb, Emma and Adaline, by the second wife. He lived near Windson, Illinois. Caleb Evans was married first in Ohio to Elizaebeth, who died January 19, 1844 aged 34 years, buried Evans Cemetery. It is thought that there were two children by the first marriage, one of whom was John Evans who died in the Gold Rush. It is believed that there were no children by the third marriage." Caleb's father, John Evans, was a brother of my ancester Washington Evans, first white settler in Monroe Twp. I'd already found Caleb in the 1870 & 1880 censuses in Moultrie Co., IL based on the above entry, but today I decided to look further. I managed to find him in Macon Co., IL in 1860 based on his son, though his own name is spelled Cleb. But he has a Marion Anderson 20 male & Eliza Anderson 23 living with him. I used Marion to backtrack and found what I believe is the family in 1850 in Eden Twp., Licking County. Marion's widowed mother Elizabeth at 50 is too old to be the mother of Caleb's second family, but her oldest daugher, Adaline 20 fits wonderfully. Caleb is again a widower in 1860. I wonder if anyone has information about who was Elizabeth Anderson's husband, and for that matter, if anyone has additional information about the family.